Tag: Poetry

August 13 The first episode of the Coke Studio Pakistan is out and it features Natasha Baig with the famous, Qawwals Fareed Ayaz and Abu Mohammad and brothers, performing the famous poet, Allama Iqbal's- 'Shikwa/Jawab-e-Shikwa'. According to Coke Studio, this "unique rendition explores the genre of rock and the signature sound of qawwali in [a] one of a kind track." We will not spend much time on the Iqbal's Shikwa but would like to linger more over its answer, Jawab-e-Shikwa, in which Iqbal imagines the voice of God answering the lamenter’s complaint. Some of the most moving lines of the poem include: “We are inclined to mercy, but there is no one to implore Whom can we show the way? There is no wayfarer to the destintion Jewel polishing is common but there is no proper j...